Device for paying out paper to and winding up paper from adding and like machines.



J. ELLIOTT. DEVICE FOR PAYING OUT PAPER TO AND'WINDIfiG UP PAPER FROM ADDING AND LIKE MACHINES.

APPLICATION nun 113.12, 1910.

973,018, Patented Oct. 18, 1910.

JOHN ELLIOTT, OF BARNSLEY, ENGLAND.

DEVICE FOR iAYING OUT PAPER TO AND WINDING UP PAPER FROM ADDING AND LIKE MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 18, 1910.

Application filed January 12, 1910. Serial No. 537,642.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN Emao'rr, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, and resident of Barnsley, in the county of York, England, president of the Barnsley Co operative Society Limited, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Paying Out Paper to and Winding Up Paper from Adding and Like Machines, of which thc following is a specifi-- cation.

My invention relates to a device for use in connection with adding and registering machines of the Bu'rroughs or other type in which a roll of paper is employed on which the amounts of purchases and totals of individual-purchases or figures are printed, the object being to provide means for payingiout the roll of paper to the machine and taking up the paper coming from the machine at the same rate it is given out, insteadof allowing such paper to accumulate on'the floor, bench or table adjacent to the machine. as it lSSl lOS from the latter.

My.invention consists essentiallg of a. suitable supporting frame anda' num er of rollers carried b the machine. 1 y invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings in slotted bearingsc so that it may .which,

, Flgure 1 is a side elevation of a. device constructed in accordance w th my 1nvention, Fig. 2. vertical section of same'andFig.

'3, plan with the paper s trip'removed from the rollers.

In accordance with my iiivention'l employ a suitable frame a provided with slot-' ted or other bearings adapted to receive, sustain and guide 'a number of-ro1lers,'one. of which is the roller 'containingthe reel of paperlribbon'b to be paid out to the adding machine, the other roller'to receive the printed paper coming from thev machine,

while other rollers are ada ted to-guide and press the paper ribbon. T c arrangement I at present pj'refer'isto mount a roller 0, cons taining thefiplain reel of aper b at the rear of the frame, the roller eing sup orted in I iie easily placed in or taken out of position. This 18 the delivery roller and it is adapted to rest on or against or adjaent 13 n receiving the frame from and on to which the r0 lpaper can be unwound and wound, respectivel and guided when passv in into and'out o roller g on which the paper coming from 'over'the roller is to the second roller 9 on which the paper is wound as hereinafter described and thenover a guide roller h to the machine, the loo iat the extreme left of the drawings indleatin the position of the paper inside the mac iine. The paper follows the direction of the arrows over'fa guide roller j and thence under the guide and pressure roller k to the receiving roller g before referred to on which it is wound. The rollers g and-k are mounted in inclined slotted bearings m so that both rollers can be easily removed when threading the pa er in the first instance, the guide and ressurc roller ]r heing lifted up and reste inthe fork-shaped portion of the frame at its extreme inward point, the roller 9 bein' rested in the depression 11 in the for-war portion of the frame. By the means de scribed the roller 7 to receive the printed slip coming from the machine is located in the loop o of the plain paper between the roller and guide roller 7t consequently'the v roller 7r gives suflicient frictional pressure tokeep the roller 9 in contact with the-paper being fed 'forwarql- The slotted bearings enable the 'rcels'or ,rollers toaccorninoda'te themselves according, to their increasing "or decreasing diameters; v I The device is placedin close proximity to the adding machine-and is usually made for a standard width of roll paper, the cross stays -71 determining the distance apart of'the side frames. such stays being secured I to the frames by collars q and nuts 2". The uide rollers are provided with flun es s to lioep the ribbon in place laterally while the guide and pressure roller k and the axles,

supporting the reels 0 and g may have milled heads to enable them to be turned when threading and adjusting the ribbon of paper between the various rollers and also for case in handling them when placing them in ortaking them out oftheiframe a-. The latter-may'lia adated to be adjustable laterally to take di erent widths of and spindles being I find, however,that three widths of pa er paper, suitable rollers employed, as required. as a rule only two or are employe advisable to build SHQCHII standard devices a for the various widt The device entirel V obviates the defects hereinbefore referred to and provides a neat, simple and efil'cient machine for the purpose.

What I claim as my invention and desire to'secureby Letters Patent is i?- 1. In a paper feeding device, the combination, with a supporting frame PlOVlded with uides, of a paper delivering roller journa ed in stationary bearings in the fra1ne,a paper-receiving roller journaled in stationarybearings at the bottom of the said guides and arranged adjacent to the aper eliver roller, a pressure roller slida )le in the sai guides and bearing downwardly on the paper receiving roller, and guide rollers arranged above the pressure roller and. on the op osite side 0 the receiving roller from t evdelivery rollerg'uie paper from the delivery roller being adapted to be assed therefrom once over the pressurethe receiving roller and the guide roller, lOllBl'S'lIl succession, and-thence fro n the 'upper guide roller over the pressure roller in practice and it is there" ore waora for a second'time and wound upon the reeeiving roller under the'lap of plaper which passes. around it first from delivery roller.

2. In a p} per feeding device, the combination, wit a supporting frame, of a paper delivery roll and a aper receiving rol both journaled in the said frame, a pressure roll slidable in the frame adjacent to the said receiving roll, guide rollers alsofree to revolve, and a strip of paper which also forms a driving band for revolving the receiving roll, said strip of paper being wound on the delivery roll atone end and on the receiving roll at the other end with its "intervening portion-passing over the pressure roll and the guide rolls, said intervening portion be ing provided with a loop which passes over and engages with the end, portion of the paper which is wound on the receiving roll, whereby the said receiving roller is driven continuously at a speed which diminishes in proportion to the increase quantity of paper Wound on it.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in-"the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN ELLIOTT. \Vitnesses:

\VILLIAM HENRY TAYLOR, AMY E. Evms. 

